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- From: hinkle@cs.Buffalo.EDU (Steven J. Hinkle)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
- Subject: Re: allowing users root access to specific commands
- Message-ID: <Brwt1v.2pL@acsu.buffalo.edu>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 20:03:30 GMT
- References: <1992Jul24.130911.6009@dragon.acadiau.ca>
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- In article <1992Jul24.130911.6009@dragon.acadiau.ca>, alan@dragon.acadiau.ca (Alan McKay) writes:
- > Does anyone know of a way I can give root access to specific users for
- > specific commands? A while ago I pulled a program from the net which
- > did this, but I seem to have lost the program before installing it.
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- We use a program called 'sudo'. It is available via anonymous ftp from
- boulder.colorado.edu in /pub/sa-book/sudo
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- In a file (/usr/local/adm/sudoers) you can specify a username, the commands
- that username can execute as root and a path that it has as root.
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- Works great.
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- Steven Hinkle
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